Holy War–21st Century Style
Posted on May 28, 2008
Filed Under Islamofascism, War on Terror |
The written word can be a powerful and inciting tool, just ask the new breed of jihadists like Malika El Aroud. She is using the internet to spew her jihadi rhetoric.
Women in Islam are limited in what they can do, especially in 14th century throwback Islamofascist sects. For example, al-Qaeda does not permit women to become members. So apparently some women are finding different ways to terrorize.
Just check this story out from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
There are a couple of interesting points in this story. Mainly, what is going to take fro this woman to be in a Belgium prison and off of government benefits?
But it is on the Internet where El Aroud has distinguished herself. Writing in French under the name “Oum Obeyda,” she has transformed herself into one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe.
She calls herself a female holy warrior for al-Qaida. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself. Rather, she bullies Muslim men to go and fight and rallies women to join the cause.
“It’s not my role to set off bombs — that’s ridiculous,” she said in a rare interview. “I have a weapon. It’s to write. It’s to speak out. That’s my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb.”
There’s more:
El Aroud began her rise to prominence because of a man in her life. Two days before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, her husband carried out a bombing in Afghanistan that killed the anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud at the behest of Osama bin Laden. Her husband was killed, and she took to the Internet as the widow of a martyr.
By the way, that has proved to be a devastating blow to our efforts in Afghanistan, and of course Bin Laden knew this which is why he took at an American ally before the 9/11 attacks.
Now here, at least to me, are the key points:
She remarried, and she and her new husband were convicted in Switzerland for operating pro-Qaida Web sites. Now, according to the Belgian authorities, she is a suspect in what they believe is a plot to carry out attacks in Belgium.
“Vietnam is nothing compared to what awaits you on our lands,” she wrote to a supposed Western audience in March about wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Ask your mothers, your wives to order your coffins.” To her followers she added: “Victory is appearing on the horizon my brothers and sisters. Let’s intensify our prayers.”
She was detained last December with 13 others in what the authorities suspected was a plot to free a convicted terrorist from prison and to launch an attack in Brussels. But Belgian law required that they be released within 24 hours, because no charges were brought and searches failed to turn up weapons, explosives or incriminating documents.
Now, even as El Aroud remains under constant surveillance, she is back home rallying militants on her main Internet forum and collecting more than $1,100 a month in government unemployment benefits.
Wow Belgium. What are you thinking? You’re allowing a jihadi propagandist to remain free an collect government benefits?
“Her jihad is not to lead an operation but to inspire other people to wage jihad,” said Glenn Audenaert, the director of Belgium’s federal police force, in an interview. “She enjoys the protection that Belgium offers. At the same time, she is a potential threat.”
You know, it seems to me that we in the West might want to start being just as concerned with jihadi propagandists as were are with actual terrorists. I mean these propagandists are motivating and rallying the troops so to speak.
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